Thursday 2 August 2018

Re: RFC: baseline requirements for Ubuntu rootfs: xattrs and fscaps

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:58:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> - Users who are unpacking root tarballs need to take care to pass
> --xattrs-include=* to tar.

The tar documentation suggests that just --xattrs should be enough:

By default, when '--xattr' is used, all names are stored in the
archive (or extracted, if using '--extract').

Am I missing something?

--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

--
ubuntu-devel mailing list
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel